Gender, Race, and Publishing on the Left

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Jun 16 13:22:23 PDT 1998


At 10:26 AM 6/16/98 -0700, Charles Brown wrote:
>
>I can dig what you all are saying. Isn't another aspect that we should
>be arguing that men should have less weight to lift, not only proving
>that women can lift as much as men ? We let the boss off of the hook if
>our first protest is not that both men and women workers are being
>required to lift too much. We should use the occasion of the centuries
>long trend of more women in social production to abolish the
>mortification of the body which is toil, heavy labor.

That is a really good point. The same, of course, applies to women in the military. Is the dubious 'honor' of being a mercenary for the world capitalist class worth fighting for?

Regards,

WS



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